Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives

S Ha, J Lee, M van de Panne, Z **e… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Legged locomotion holds the premise of universal mobility, a critical capability for many real-
world robotic applications. Both model-based and learning-based approaches have …

Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges

K Garg, S Zhang, O So, C Dawson, C Fan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In this survey, we review the recent advances in control design methods for robotic multi-
agent systems (MAS), focusing on learning-based methods with safety considerations. We …

Tuning legged locomotion controllers via safe bayesian optimization

D Widmer, D Kang, B Sukhija… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper presents a data-driven strategy to streamline the deployment of model-based
controllers in legged robotic hardware platforms. Our approach leverages a model-free safe …

Gosafe: Globally optimal safe robot learning

D Baumann, A Marco, M Turchetta… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When learning policies for robotic systems from data, safety is a major concern, as violation
of safety constraints may cause hardware damage. SafeOpt is an efficient Bayesian …

A human-centered safe robot reinforcement learning framework with interactive behaviors

S Gu, A Kshirsagar, Y Du, G Chen, J Peters… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Deployment of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms for robotics applications in the real
world requires ensuring the safety of the robot and its environment. Safe Robot RL (SRRL) is …

[HTML][HTML] GoSafeOpt: Scalable safe exploration for global optimization of dynamical systems

B Sukhija, M Turchetta, D Lindner, A Krause… - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Learning optimal control policies directly on physical systems is challenging. Even a single
failure can lead to costly hardware damage. Most existing model-free learning methods that …

Safe reinforcement learning of dynamic high-dimensional robotic tasks: navigation, manipulation, interaction

P Liu, K Zhang, D Tateo, S Jauhri, Z Hu… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is a fundamental property for the real-world deployment of robotic platforms. Any
control policy should avoid dangerous actions that could harm the environment, humans, or …

Constrained Bayesian optimization under partial observations: Balanced improvements and provable convergence

S Wang, K Li - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
The partially observable constrained optimization problems (POCOPs) impede data-driven
optimization techniques since an infeasible solution of POCOPs can provide little …

An efficient mixed constrained Bayesian optimization for handling known and unknown constraints

C Bian, Q Liu, X Zhang, B Yan, X Wang, S Zuo… - Advanced Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The airfoil design optimization often encounters unknown constraints that are unquantifiable,
which in turn pose challenges for traditional constrained Bayesian optimization (BO) …

Bayesian optimization meets hybrid zero dynamics: Safe parameter learning for bipedal locomotion control

L Yang, Z Li, J Zeng, K Sreenath - … International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a multi-domain control parameter learning framework that
combines Bayesian Optimization (BO) and Hybrid Zero Dynamics (HZD) for locomotion …